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I think that for me, the grey area is profit. Sharing just for fun is different to me than sharing for profit. To put another example into the mix, I have written a series of original stories that I use when I am teaching. One of them features the names of various teachers at my school. I have shared these stories on an on-line community of teachers who use the same teaching program as me, and I have even suggested that before they print them out, they can feel free to modify the names of the teacher characters to reflect people in their own actual school. I have heard afterward that several people did this; one of them changed a few other aspects as well (the main character, a dog, eats various foods during the story; one of them is a food they don't eat where she lives, so she changed it) and I said great, fine, glad you are using an enjoying. But of that person then took her changed version and tried to publish it for money, I'd be mad! There is a sort of unofficial code for these sorts of things which makes that unlikely (teachers respect that others will share for their benefit and in return someday they can reciprocate, and it's a great circle of resource pooling) but still, I suppose there is the possibility. And if that happened, I would take what steps I could.
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